Iva Ferguson

Published: Thursday, August 07, 2008

Graveside services for Iva Ferguson, 91, will be 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 9, 2008, at Hale Center Cemetery with Kevin Haralson, pastor of Freewill Baptist Church in Hector, Ark., officiating. Arrangements are under the direction of Abell Funeral Home in Hale Center.

She was born Aug. 5, 1916, in Santa Anna. She married Lester Ferguson on Dec. 3, 1936, in Plainview. She was an LVN at Hi-Plains Hospital and later the charge nurse for Hi-Plains Nursing Home. She was a member of First Baptist Church in Hale Center. She moved to Waldron in 1991 and attended the First Nazarene Church.

She is survived by two sons, Lester and wife Elaine Ferguson of Lubbock, and Burt and wife Sue Ferguson of Odessa; two daughters, Melba Wright of Waldron, Ark., and Carole Pettijohn of Coppell; eight grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; one great great-grandchild; and one sister, Rhoda Pritchard of Surprise, Ariz.

She is preceded by her husband, Lester Ferguson, who died on April 8, 1978, and a grandchild Kyle Wright.

Family will receive friends and family from 6:30-8 p.m. Friday, August 9, 2008 at the funeral home.